Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on the travel behavior of train travelers in the Netherlands

Mobility patterns and transport systems have been heavily impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Public transport is impacted heavily, as governments worldwide advised against using it. This paper presents the data collection effort initiated by NS (Dutch Railways) and Delft University of Technology to capture changes in travel behavior,...

Extracting Railway Passenger Demand Patterns from Origin-Destination Data for Developing Demand-Oriented Service Plans

Train passenger demand fluctuates throughout the day and week and these fluctuations are expected to increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to let train services, such as the line plan and timetable, match this fluctuating demand, insights are needed into how the demand is changing and for which periods the demand is relatively stable....

De impact van corona op treinreisgedrag

In maart 2020, nadat de coronacrisis ook Nederland had bereikt, startten TU Delft en NS een groots longitudinaal onderzoek onder treinreizigers (Van Hagen et al. 2021). Het onderzoek loopt inmiddels al ruim tweeëneenhalf jaar, met zeven deelonderzoeken en een achtste op komst. Menno de Bruyn (NS) en Niels van Oort (TU Delft) beschrijven hun...

Revealing latent trajectories of (intended) train travel during and after COVID-19

This study investigates whether the decline in public transit ridership is a temporary phenomenon or indicative of a structural shift in travel patterns and attitudes. We estimate a latent class trajectory model using data from a comprehensive and large-scale survey administered by the Dutch national train operator conducted at eight...

Change in train travelling behaviour during and after Covid-19 due to anxiety

Studies all over the world have been performed during Covid-19 to investigate the characteristics of anxious public transport travellers and the reduction in public transport usage. This indicates that reduction in public transport usage related to anxiety from Covid-19 is a problem everywhere and important to investigate this group further.<br/...

Teleworking during COVID-19 in the Netherlands: Understanding behaviour, attitudes, and future intentions of train travellers

With the arrival of COVID-19 in the Netherlands in Spring 2020 and the start of the “intelligent lockdown”, daily life changed drastically. The working population was urged to telework as much as possible. However, not everyone had a suitable job for teleworking or liked teleworking. From a mobility perspective, teleworking was considered a...

Does conducting activities while traveling reduce the value of time? Evidence from a within-subjects choice experiment

Many studies about conducting activities while traveling start from the hypothesis that conducting onboard activities reduces the value of time (VoT). However, surprisingly limited empirical evidence is provided for this hypothesis. The few studies that aim at providing this evidence face methodological problems in the sense that effects...